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Mid-life 'transitions' to higher education: developing a multi-level explanation of increasing participation
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Widening participation in higher education: mapping and investigating the stakeholder landscape
No full textWidening participation in higher education: mapping and investigating the stakeholder landscape
No full textA study funded by the ESRC, and undertaken as part of the Teaching and Learning Research Programme (TLRP) has provided the opportunity to explore the range of stakeholders involved in WP activities and to begin to map how they are working, often in complex partnership arrangements, to fulfill WP policy objectives. Interviews have been conducted with over 30 key informants representing policy, provider and employer stakeholders at national, regional and local levels. They have identified existing approaches to WP in HE and perceptions of the barriers to take up for ‘client groups’. The evidence suggests that there are multiple and conflicting voices positioned within different levels of the WP stakeholder landscape. This working paper starts to map stakeholder involvement and relationships within the context of one sub-regional area in the South East of England. It draws on the perspectives of key informants as a lens through which to further understanding of how WP policy is being framed and (re-)contextualised in practice. The contrasting stakeholder voices allow the authors to consider the inter-play between funding and targets, and collaborative approaches to the implementation and delivery of government policy at local level. The paper is organised in five sections that consist of: (1) a brief outline of policy development that indicates that since 1997, collaborative and partnership approaches have been promoted as a key way of achieving nationally set WP goals; (2) the key informant component of the research and a summary of the data collected; (3) an initial mapping of the stakeholder landscape drawing on evidence from the key informant interviews; (4) an analysis on how the ‘delivery’ of WP in HE is operationalised via stakeholder networks, providing illustrative evidence of the range and type of ‘partners’ and relationships; and (5) the conclusion: current WP activity stems mainly from the priorities, funding and targets laid down by national policy and this is generating collaborative arrangements between stakeholders, although their sustainability over time is unclear, and the analysis indicates that current efforts are focused on young people with little attention being paid to adults (20+)
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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